British actress Dame Emma Thompson has opened up to Jane Marwick on 6PR Mornings about sex scenes with a man more than 30 years her junior and the misconceptions women should be expected to handle juggling domestic life and a career simultaneously.

Thompson is in Australia to promote her new film Good Luck To You, Leo Grande (with co-star Daryl McCormack above), a wryly comic two-hander directed by Australia’s Sophie Hyde, where she plays 60-ish widow Nancy Stokes, a retired religion teacher who has never had an orgasm.

She and Marwick discussed the harm caused by depictions of conventional on-screen romance and how women “were sold a pup” about being able to juggle domestic life, motherhood and careers.

“I think the ‘you can have it all’ thing was not only cruel but also utterly untrue, and I think we need to really re-examine all of this because it’s all landed once again on our shoulders,” Thompson told Marwick.

“You know, ‘why can’t you do it all’? because we still do not value domestic work.”

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